Connecticut western news., 1887-07-27
GERMANY'S KAISER.
HIS CONDITION IS CAREFULLY
 KEPT FROM THE WORLD.
The Nonagenarian Emperor is But
 Physical Wreck.


 LONDON, July 20.-The reports concerning the health of the aged Emperor of Germany are infinitely more varied than the fiuctuatlon of thermometer. One day he is ill and the tn, next day he isn't. He is in improved health in the morning, in a comatose state st noon, riding his favorite charger in the afternoon, and attended by half dozen physicians after dinner. All of the reports agree that the Elm peror is alive, and of this there doesn't seem to be any doubt, but the stories of his taking long rides on horseback and protracted strolls after dinner may be taken ill homeopathic doses alternately with the yarn that the Pope is going to remove the headquarters of the Church to Malta or the fiction that MT. Glad stone is contemplating stumping tour of the United States. AS matter of fact the Kaiser is wound up every morning like an old-fash- toned clock, and, lest ho might possibly run down before night, is given an occasional turn during the day, so that in tho interval between his rising and retiring his mechanism is con- stantly under the observation of his attendants.
 The censorship of the Russian Government over dispatches passing through the telegraph offices of Russia is noted the world over for it's severity, but the scrutiny to which the Czar s agents subject telegrams becomes the extreme of mildness and the merest perfunctory duty when compared to theprecautions taken by the personal attendants of the Emperor of Germany against the leaking out of and information in dicating the true condition of the imperial nonagenarian, while everything that can pos sibly be said as showing the slightest i'm state is telegraphed far and wide. Not only are such dispatches spread broadcast, but they are also worded so as to present to their readers the picture of hale old man physi- cally vigorous and mentally acute who has been suffering few days inconvenience from slight cold, but is sufficiently convalescent to perform with perfect ease and even alacrity the functions of man of forty years of age. Truly some of these dispatches are marvels of misleading diction.
 Much has been said recently as to the proba- bility of war between Germany and France im- mediately after the Emperors death, convey ing the impression-as it was intended that it should be conveyed-that the present peaceful attitude of Germany is due entirely to the Elm peror's firmness in guiding the destlnles of the Fatherland; and these stories, too, if traced to their origin, would be found to have originat- ed in Berlin, and very near, If not actually within the palace There is remote possi= bility that the representations thus made may have been reared upon a foundation of truth, but there are persons, and we'll informed per sons, too, who believe that for the last twelve months, if not for much longer period, the Emperor has had as little to do with the con- duct of German national, political and diplo- matic affairs as the man whose vigorous rub- bing restores to his feeble body when he awakes each morning something akin to the sensations he experienced before his blood ceased to circulate without stimulation when all of his food was taken through it's natural channel and when he could arise from his bed and walk about his room without being lifted or propped up.
 It is noteworthy that the Times, Standard, Daily Ne,cs, and other morning papers con tain Berlin despatches concerning the Elm peror's health and whereabouts, one stating that he left Innsbruck in s'improved health, y and another announcing his arrival at Gastein in the care of three physicians. The latter despatch significantly adds that the hotel pro prietors were obliged to put their imperial guest o9 the first floor because he wasn't able to get up stairs, and intimates that he was afraid he should fall down if he tried to do so.
 It is we'll enough for the Germans to claim the oldest monarch in the world, for they I've got him; but it is ridiculous to claim also that he excels all others in vigor, or indeed that he surpasses anybody in that respect.-N. I. Satn.